Majesty going astray

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Movie
Original title Majesty going astray
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Robert A. Stemmle
script Robert A. Stemmle
production Heinz Fiebig
Karl Gillmore
Herbert Maris
music Peter Igelhoff
Herbert Trantow
camera Göran Strindberg
cut Walter von Bonhorst
occupation

Majestät auf Abwege is a German feature film from 1958 by Robert A. Stemmle . He had also written the script. It is based on the novel Let's play King (... be king, however, very much) by the US-American Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis . The main roles are cast with Fita Benkhoff , Chariklia Baxevanos , Oliver Grimm and Michael Ande . The work had its world premiere on December 17, 1958.

action

Berta Linke is happy that the bad days are over when she had to live with her almost adult daughter Ulla and her ten-year-old son Fritz in a disused bus on the outskirts of the city. Now the family is rich and lives in a magnificent villa. This is thanks to the son who, under the name Ferry Linke, has become an internationally known child star in film. But he is not always happy about it, because the mother, who has gone to head for his success, suddenly attaches great importance to dressing nicely every day, and Ulla should no longer have contact with her Jochen because she no longer has him considers appropriate.

One day Berta Linke learns from the newspaper that the twelve-year-old King Maximilian III. of Slovakians, accompanied by his mother, arrived in Brussels to open his country's pavilion at the world exhibition that is currently taking place. Berta immediately made the plan to go to Brussels so that her son, the “King of the Film Children”, could meet the King of Slowaria. This would also give Ferry an opportunity to settle into his next role as prince, not to mention the huge publicity as a side effect.

Mother Linke and her children occupy an apartment directly above the floor where the young king and his mother are currently living. But as much as Berta Linke tried to get in touch with the royal family, she was denied success. Finally, Mother Linke senses another opportunity to realize her plan when she realizes that Count Elopatak, the Queen's Chamberlain, is showing a keen interest in Ulla. But she secretly summoned her admirer to Brussels, and when he arrived there, the count quickly turned away from Ulla.

At first, Mother Linke does not know that her son is meeting the young king in the hotel foyer. There is an electrical railway system set up there that casts a spell over both children. Soon the bellhop Robby joins the two. The three of them decide to break out of the restraints placed on them. Now they would like to be pirates on the high seas. Together they make their way to the port of Antwerp.

In a different way than expected, Ms. Berta sees herself at the goal of her wishes: Caring for her sons brings the two mothers together. The two become noticeably more personable. In the meantime, the police have been called in and are now feverishly looking for the runaways. Jochen Brinkmann also takes part in the search, and it is also he who happens to track down the boys on a wrecked steamer in the harbor and bring them back to the hotel. The three are generously forgiven. Mother Berta allows her son to play his dream role as a pirate in the film soon, and her Ulla can look forward to a wedding with Jochen.

Production notes

The buildings were created by the film architects Gabriel Pellon and Peter Röhrig . Eva Maria Schröder contributed the costumes.

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly states that it is a German film amusement game that places more value on the equipment than on the possibilities of the material.

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaft Franke & Co. KG, Munich 2, number 4615

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 2412